Reprint

Boundary Layer Processes in Geophysical/Environmental Flows

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August 2024
200 pages
  • ISBN978-3-7258-1355-1 (Hardback)
  • ISBN978-3-7258-1356-8 (PDF)

This is a Reprint of the Special Issue Boundary Layer Processes in Geophysical/Environmental Flows that was published in

Engineering
Physical Sciences
Summary

Boundary layer processes play a crucial role in establishing the circulation patterns of the oceans and atmosphere, significantly affecting both regional climates and the global climate, as well as the distributions of heat, nutrients, species, pollutants, and more. This Special Issue of Fluids is dedicated to recent advances in the theoretical, numerical, observational (including instrumentation development), and experimental investigation of geophysical/environmental boundary layer processes and how those process may influence regional and global circulation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, air–sea interactions and fluxes (including the influence of sea ice), western and eastern boundary currents, bottom boundary processes (including complex topography interactions and sediment motion), and internal boundary layers (such as fronts, shear layers, and thermocline processes).

Format
  • Hardback
License and Copyright
© 2024 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
impact crater; index matching; complex topography; sediment transport; turbulent open channel flows; direct numerical simulation; lattice Boltzmann method; turbulence; mixing; bottom boundary layers; stratified Ekman layer; gustiness; momentum flux; drag coefficient; air–sea interaction; marine boundary layer; western boundary current; loop current; hysteresis; geophysical fluid dynamics; turbulence; bottom boundary layer; Ekman layer; energy dissipation; ocean bottom boundary layer; bottom-intensified current; coastal-trapped wave; acoustic Doppler current profiler; tsunami; numerical simulation; Navier–Stokes equations; Volume of Fluid Method (VOF method); LOGOS software package; eastern boundary currents; submesoscale; internal gravity waves; balanced motions; dynamical filtering; spectral analysis; global numerical model; exact solutions; Navier–Stokes equations; Rayleigh friction; Kolmogorov flow; isobaric flows; gradient flows; overdetermined system; solvability condition; n/a